Self-Study, Improvisational Theatre, and the Reflective Turn

I am pleased to announce the publication of my article “Self-Study, Improvisational Theatre, and the Reflective Turn: Using Video Data to Challenge My Pedagogy of Science Teacher Education” in the journal Educational Research for Social Change.

The abstract:

This article analyses a small section of data of a year-
long project in which I used a video camera to record nearly all the meetings of my physics curriculum methods courses in a pre-service teacher education programme. After briefly setting the context for the study, the article presents a lengthy selection of data from a critical incident in my teacher education classroom in a script-like form. The data are then analysed from three different theoretical lenses — the lens of the viewer, the researcher, and the teacher educator — as a way of examining how each lens can inform different aspects of myself. The article concludes with a discussion of the reflexive effects of both viewing video recordings of my classes and engaging with theatre literature on my pedagogy of science teacher education.

The article is is available freely, under a creative commons licence, by registering with the journal. Click here for the issue in which my article appears.